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13777256 No.13777256 [Reply] [Original]

How does someone become convinced of a philosophy? Philosophers are supposed to "question everything" and stuff but I'm confused as to how these intelligent guys can be so sure that their own philosophy is correct. For example, Sartre kind of accepted existentialism as if someone would trust a "philosophy" from a self help book ("think it into existence" or other bs). It seems like there was a lack of scrutiny toward whether essence is really decided solely by our actions. What does it take for you to accept a philosophy? Should it just feel right?

>> No.13777276

>>13777256
I think accepting a philosophy comes from not being able to find any valid counter-arguments to it.

>> No.13777280

>>13777256
Well Sartre was a retard who responded with an arbitrary reification of the self to the self being threatened by nihilism. Thats why him and his followers are all degenerate hedonists too.

>> No.13777281

>>13777276
Would you say that there are any that hold up? Or anything that you accept personally.

>> No.13777291

>>13777280
This lol. His philosophy can be boiled down to "yolo"

>> No.13777300

>>13777256
Philosophers just come up with creative ideas. Nothing close to truth.

>> No.13777383

>>13777281
I personally ascribe to stoicism, though I’m sure there are plenty who have poked holes in it through the years.

>> No.13777735

I rarely feel like they are telling me some truth unless they're religious. Usually it's a model of thinking about the world , metaphysics, or something else that they try to present consistently